Hi Robert. Thanks for the pointer, but I had already started down the
road to see if sitescooper would do it, and since I already know some
perl but _no_ python, I found that less intimidating :?).
First off I didn't understand that it was actually slashdot that was
inserting the italic tags in the first place. I (mistakenly) thought
that it was just the way the plucker viewer was presenting the quoted
text. Next time I'll check the page source first.
For those that use sitescooper I just had to add the following to my
slashdot.sites file:
# strip off the italic tags
StoryPostProcess: {
s/<i>//igm;
s/<\/i>//igm;
}
I found another benefit in getting sitescooper to convert the page. I
use sitescooper to compact & present all my news in one convenient
spot, which I then grab with plucker. If I have time, I'll just read
the stuff 'directly' at my desktop, but if not then I'll read it on my
palm later. This way, it's the same stuff no matter where I read it. I
like that.
Thanks again for your help. I'm sure I'll come up with more questions
soon.
take care
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:55:49PM -0230, Robert OConnor wrote:
> Jeff wrote:
>>Hi all. Is there anyway to have the plucker viewer _not_ italicize
>>quoted text? Makes the bodies of the slashdot articles (which are
>>all quoted) hard to read. thks
>>
>>Details: 'doze Plucker Desktop 1.4.0.2 Plucker viewer 1.4 Palm OS
>>4.1 (m125) Site(s) scooped with sitescooper 3.1.2
>
> Open up the file in /parser/python/PyPlucker called TextParser.py
> and you can modify the things that you want done for the start and
> stop of any tag.
>
> For example, <cite> is coded as italics. (it used to be blockquoted
> I guess, since it has been commented out with a #).
>
> def start_cite (self, attr): self.start_i (attr)
> #self.start_blockquote (attr)
>
> def end_cite (self): self.end_i () #self.end_blockquote ()
>
> I don't know what tag slashdot is using, but you can modify them
> similarly.
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